On Tuesday, July 12 (one day before the National Conference on Ending Homelessness) the NAC will meet again. This meeting will include discussion on what is being done at federal, state, and local levels to end LGBTQ youth homelessness what still needs to be done. Additionally, the meeting will include special guests:

Within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youth population, homelessness has long been an epidemic; only recently, however, has the issue begun to receive the level of national attention that it deserves. Of the estimated 1.6 million homeless youths today, an estimated 20 – 40 percent self-identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. This is quite disproportionate to the percentage of youth overall who identify as LGBT, which is estimated somewhere between 4 -10 percent. Therefore, though an abundance of research is lacking, youth providers and LGBT activists now see an imperative to address this widespread issue.